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2021 Golden Apple Award winning teachers

Ten Catholic school teachers from across the Archdiocese of Washington are receiving 2021 Golden Apple Awards for teaching excellence and dedication to Catholic education.

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Golden Apple Award marks capstone for career of St. Bartholomew’s longtime computer teacher

The ruse worked without a hitch, getting JoAnne Hall, the computer teacher at St. Bartholomew Catholic School in Bethesda, outside for the surprise announcement that she was a...

Jun 30, 2021

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Sacred Heart School’s Golden Apple Award-winning teacher finds inspiration in faith, art

Kristen Kullberg molds together art, faith, and knowledge as an eighth grade language arts teacher at Sacred Heart School in Washington, D.C. She was one of the 10 Catholic school...

Jun 29, 2021

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Teacher at St. Mary’s School of Piscataway receives Golden Apple Award, and golden apple cookies

Not only did Kathleen Weslowski, the second grade teacher and assistant principal at St. Mary’s School of Piscataway in Clinton, Maryland, recently receive a 2021 Golden Apple...

Jun 28, 2021

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Watching her students grow is a daily reward for St. Thomas More’s Golden Apple winning pre-K teacher

Examples of colors, shapes, numbers and letters are displayed throughout Kristen Weinman’s pre-kindergarten classroom at St. Thomas More Catholic Academy in Washington, D.C. In...

Jun 25, 2021

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St. Jerome’s Golden Apple winner teaches first graders about beauty of God’s love and creation

A sense of peace and faith radiates from the walls of Mary Pollock’s first grade classroom. As a teacher of young children at St. Jerome Academy in Hyattsville, Maryland, Pollock...

Jun 23, 2021

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Collaborative work with parents cited as a key part of Christine Green’s love for teaching

Golden Apple Award winner Christine Green came to teaching as a career in part out of her family’s respect for the vocation. “It’s always been a part of my nature to teach,” said...

Jun 22, 2021

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At home as longtime St. Columba teacher, Bill Johnson honored with Golden Apple Award

Since becoming a teacher at St. Columba School in Oxon Hill, Maryland, nearly four decades ago, Bill Johnson has been known for teaching students lasting values for life, and also...

Jun 20, 2021

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Golden Apple winner Emily Kogut teaches students ‘to celebrate and praise our Lord’

For Emily Kogut, a first grade teacher at St. Mary’s School in Landover Hills, Maryland, the best part of her job is seeing the excitement in her students when they grasp what she...

Jun 17, 2021

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Sixteen years later, Kathy Gardenhour’s beloved first teaching job earns her a Golden Apple Award

Before Kathy Gardenhour was a classroom aide or a teacher at Holy Redeemer School in College Park, Maryland, she was the parent of students there and a parishioner at Holy...

Jun 16, 2021

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St. Mary’s Ryken theology teacher helps students see faith as ‘the deepest truth of reality’

For the past school year as St. Mary’s Ryken High School in Leonardtown, Maryland, conducted classes both virtually and in-person due to the coronavirus pandemic, theology teacher...

Jun 15, 2021

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Ten Catholic school teachers in Archdiocese of Washington receive Golden Apple Awards for 2021

Ten local Catholic school teachers of the Archdiocese of Washington were honored as 2021 Golden Apple Award winners because of their excellence in teaching and commitment to a...

Jun 9, 2021